Laser cutting
Fiber laser, 60 × 120 in. bed, up to 1/2 in. carbon, 3/8 in. stainless, 1/4 in. aluminum.
Fabrication · Engineering · Field serviceBuilt to tolerance.
Built to tolerance.
Delivered on the day we said.
Sheet metal, structural assemblies and machined parts, built to your drawing in a 42,000 sq ft shop on Cleveland’s east side. Engineering review before the first cut, quotes in two business days.
31Years in Cleveland
1,900+Jobs shipped last year
99.2%On time (sample)
31years of
experience
experience
About the company
42,000 square feet, two bays, one point of contact.
Forge has run on Cleveland’s east side since 1994. Twenty-eight people: welders, machinists, two engineers and a quoting desk that answers within two business days.
Larger jobs get a single point of contact who owns the drawing review, the schedule and the field crew, so interfaces are decided once and not argued about on site.
- AWS D1.1 certified welders
- ISO 9001:2015 (sample)
- 20-ton overhead crane
- Certs with every shipment
Solutions01 02 03 04 05 06
Six things the shop does every week.
Forming
250-ton, 12 ft press brake. Tooling for most standard radii in stock.
Welding & fabrication
MIG and TIG to AWS D1.1. Structural assemblies to 20 ft, sheet metal to 1/2 in.
Machining
Three 3-axis mills, two CNC lathes. ±0.005 in. held on production runs.
Engineering review
Design-for-manufacture check on every drawing before it is quoted.
Field service
Planned shutdowns, on-site repair and installation within 300 miles.
Have a drawing? Quotes go out within two business days.
(216) 555-0160
How a job runs
Problems found on paper cost less than problems found on the floor.
Bend radii, weld access, tolerance stack-ups and material availability get flagged with a suggested change, so the quote you approve is the part you receive.
01
Quote
Send the drawing. We check it for manufacturability and quote within two business days.
02
Build
Material ordered on approval; a ship date, a named shop contact and a photo at each inspection point.
03
Deliver
Packing list, certificates of conformance and the as-built drawing travel with the parts.
Projects
Parts that left the shop this year.
Fictional projects with sample scopes. Open one for the specification and the outcome.
Questions
Before you send the drawing.
What file formats do you accept?
STEP, DXF, DWG and PDF. Send STEP for anything machined.
How fast is a quote?
Two business days for most drawings. Same day for repeat parts.
Do you supply material certs?
Mill certs and certificates of conformance travel with every shipment.
Do you do field work?
Planned shutdowns, repair and installation within 300 miles of Cleveland.
What tolerances do you hold?
±0.005 in. on production machining, tighter by arrangement.
Customers we build for (fictional)
Erie Conveyor
Lakeshore Energy
Ohio Rail Services
Cuyahoga Dairy
Midwest Mill Co.
Great Lakes Utilities
Contact
Send a drawing.
- Quotes
- quotes@forge-cle.com
- Phone
- (216) 555-0160
- Plant
- 4400 Lakeside Avenue East
Cleveland, OH 44114 - Hours
- Mon – Fri, 6:30 am – 4:30 pm
